Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

The paradigm is shifting in health research involving Indigenous Peoples: research with Indigenous Peoples at a meeting place of multiple worldviews-the ethical space - instead of research on or about them (Bull, 2016; Canadian Institutes of Health Research [CIHR], Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [NSERC], and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [SSHRC], 2014; Ermine, 2007; Moore, 2015) . Advancements within both Indigenous and academic communities are driving the shift and creating a pathway for researchers, Research Ethics Boards (REBs), and Indigenous Peoples to collaborate to find solutions that address the policy-to-practice gap that currently exists in research ethics review. The emergent paradigm is an invitation for researchers and REBs to think, know and act differently - to do research with Indigenous Peoples leading. This presentation will emphasize key findings from a 2018 study with 18 REB members, chairs, administrators, and research ethics policy experts across Canada. Participant contributors suggested ways to improve the theory, application, and practice of ethics for research with Indigenous Peoples, including office hours dedicated to Indigenous research ethics, asking the 'right' questions in protocols and forms, and having Indigenous Peoples sit on the institutional REB. All participant contributors called on researchers, REBs, institutions, and funding agencies to improve how we do research/review with Indigenous Peoples. This talk will offer a series of innovations and practices that are currently underway at REBs across Canada to demonstrate the possibilities of doing differently.